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Autore: | McNair Glenn <1962-> |
Titolo: | Criminal injustice : slaves and free Blacks in Georgia's criminal justice system / / Glenn McNair |
Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
Disciplina: | 364.9758089/96073 |
Soggetto topico: | Criminal justice, Administration of - Georgia - History - 18th century |
Criminal justice, Administration of - Georgia - History - 19th century | |
Discrimination in criminal justice administration - Georgia - History | |
African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - Georgia - History - 18th century | |
African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - Georgia - History - 19th century | |
Enslaved persons - Legal status, laws, etc - Georgia - History | |
Free African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - Georgia - History | |
Crime and race - Georgia - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Georgia Race relations History 18th century |
Georgia Race relations History 19th century | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | "My Lord, they are stark mad after Negroes" : slavery and the corruption of Georgia's legal culture -- "For the better ordering and governing Negroes" : Blacks and the law -- "Negroes might cut the throats of our people" : Black crime and its causes -- "Some convenient method and form of tryal" : the trial process -- "The slave should look to his master and the courts to avenge his wrongs" : the appellate process -- "May the Lord have mercy on his soul" : punishment. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Criminal Injustice shows how the prerogatives of slavery and white racial domination trumped any hope for legal justice for blacks. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Criminal injustice |
ISBN: | 1-280-49017-9 |
9786613585400 | |
0-8139-2983-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910819004003321 |
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